Advance care plans for CPR or mechanical ventilation in patients with dementia

Nurse Pract. 2010 Dec;35(12):38-42. doi: 10.1097/01.NPR.0000390436.13252.81.

Abstract

Early development of advance care plans is an ethical and supportive intervention providers can offer patients and families facing a dementia diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Advance Care Planning*
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation*
  • Decision Making
  • Dementia / nursing*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Professional-Family Relations*
  • Proxy
  • Respiration, Artificial*